Carlsbad Battered Family Shelter

We at the Carlsbad Battered Families Shelter want to make sure that victims of domestic violence are aware of various services that may help you in your time of need. Domestic violence is a vicious cycle and there are services availible to help in breaking that cycle.

Our job here at the Carlsbad Battered Families Shelter is to help you with dignity and respect. We hope that our victim service program will help you to move past this time of crisis with as little trouble as possible. If you have questions or would like to make an appointment for victim services, as well as Temporary Restraining Orders, please call Sharon Janes, Monday through Friday, at 885-4615. If she is not at the office at the time of your call, please leave your name and safe phone number and she will get back to you as soon as possible.

Please call the Carlsbad Battered Families Shelter at 885-4615 for any information. Staff is availible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Community Against Violence

The mission of Community Against Violence, Inc. (CAV) is to foster and support communities free from all forms of domestic and sexual violence. CAV is the only Dual Shelter in Northern New Mexico serving victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.

COPE, Inc.

COPE’s mission is to help people affected by domestic violence and other forms of abuse in Otero and Lincoln Counties, NM. We do this by providing a comprehensive array of direct services, including shelter, counseling, advocacy and legal services; by engaging others in effectively addressing these issues in our community; and by promoting safe and healthy relationships through outreach, awareness and prevention programs. COPE services include:

COPE, Inc. – Ruidoso

COPE’s mission is to help people affected by domestic violence and other forms of abuse in Otero and Lincoln Counties, NM. We do this by providing a comprehensive array of direct services, including shelter, counseling, advocacy and legal services; by engaging others in effectively addressing these issues in our community; and by promoting safe and healthy relationships through outreach, awareness and prevention programs. COPE services include:

Advocacy

We help victims with orders of protection and make referrals to legal aids and other agencies that will help them with the legal issues.

Individual Therapy

Designed for Children, Victims and Perpetrators, individual therapy sessions help the person explore the choices they have made and are given options and insight to new choices that will take them to live violence-free lives.

Group Therapy

In group therapy people learn from each other through sharing experiences, and are guided by a facilitator to understand the importance of identifying patterns of behaviors that they themselves or their partners can exhibit so that they can make good choices in time that will start creating a violence-free environment for their family.

Emergency Shelter

The emergency Shelter is available 24 hr a day 7 days a week. It is designated for victims in dangerous situations. It is a place where they are provided with free food, shelter and education about making the correct choices to start the path for a better future.

All our services are bilingual.

All our services are free with the exception of court mandated therapy.

Domestic Abuse Intervention Center

Domestic Abuse Intervention Center

686 East ThirdTruth or ConsequencesNM87901workPhone:(505) 894-3557workEmail:daic@windstream.netINTERNET

DVRC

Domestic Violence Resource Center (DVRC) provides advocacy, counseling and legal services to victims of domestic violence and their dependent children in Bernalillo County.

DVRC serves approximately 3,000 adult and child victims of domestic violence each year.

The Victim Assistance Unit works with the Albuquerque Police Department and the Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department to offer services 24 hours a day for victims of domestic violence, elder abuse and sexual assault.

All of our services are safe, confidential, culturally-sensitive and free.

El Refugio, Inc.

Offers education, counseling, a shelter for victims of domestic violence, legal services for children and their families effected by domestic violence and sexual abuse. Provides service and specialized assessment, mental health evaluations, support services, counseling, education and training, life and social skills, crisis intervention, and domestic violence shelter care.

ENIPC Peacekeepers Domestic Violence Program

The Peacekeepers Program is a domestic violence program serving native/non-native spouses and partners (female and male) residing within the Eight Northern Pueblos. We seek to raise awareness of domestic violence by educating the community on the devastating effects of domestic violence and by addressing and reducing violence.

Community Services

Children and Adult Counseling Services

Advocacy and Systems Advocacy

Information and Referrals

Training and Technical Assistance

Prosecution

Perpetrator Groups

Legal Issues

Probation

Enlace Comunitario

Enlace Comunitario is a social justice organization led by Latina immigrants in Central New Mexico. Our mission is to work to eliminate domestic violence in the Latino immigrant community and to promote healthy families through: comprehensive domestic violence intervention services in Spanish, preventative community education, policy advocacy and leadership development.

We are a non-profit community based organization that provides direct services to Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence and advocates for the rights of Latino immigrants and their children. Our holistic approach includes counseling, legal services, community education, leadership development and organizing to impact system change.

Comprehensive programming at Esperanza is designed to increase victim and child safety, promote batterer accountability and effect positive change in the perception of domestic violence within the community. Services are aimed at addressing the spectrum of domestic violence by providing immediate safety and shelter and psycho-educational counseling as well as advocacy and education. Strategically focused programs have been developed that address those issues which, when resolved, allow our clients to move forward with their lives. Esperanza offers programs and services which are predicated on nationally recognized models within the domestic violence movement for effectively addressing client needs and service delivery for victims and survivors, offenders and children from households where there is domestic violence between intimate partners.

Family Crisis Center

You have the right to live without fear of being physically, emotionally, sexually hurt or controlled. Did you know that half of all marriages experience at least one episode of domestic violence? FBI Report.

You are NOT Alone… It is NOT your fault…You DESERVE Help.
Let Family Crisis Center help take the CRISIS of domestic violence out of your family.

The mission of the Family Crisis Center is to enhance community harmony and strengthen families and individuals by promoting health, well-being and non-violence through prevention, education, intervention, treatment and shelter services.

Haven House

· Haven House is the domestic violence services provider and emergency shelter serving all of Sandoval County, and located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico

· Haven House is a five-bedroom shelter that can provide housing for approximately 20 women and children

· Haven House provides an array of services to victims of domestic violence including 24/7 crisis intervention, legal advocacy, case management, community and shelter support groups, individual counseling for victims and child-witnesses, life skill programs for victims and their children, and community education and training

· Haven House conducts a 52-week Batterer’s Intervention Program for perpetrators of domestic violence that holds abusers accountable for their acts of violence and abuse

· Haven House is a member of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence; the Sandoval County Domestic Violence Coordinated Community Response; the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, and the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Network—working to end sexual and intimate partner violence in New Mexico

This program is a minimum of 52 weeks and is available for individuals who have a history of partner abuse. Participants can be either self-referred or court mandated. This program provides participants with information and practical tools to change those values, beliefs, and behaviors which support the use of physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual abuse. Services are available in Las Cruces and Anthony.

Transitional Housing

This program provides up to 24 months of rental assistance, case management, and support services to victims of domestic violence and their children who are transitioning out of our residential program into an independent setting.

Satellite Program

This program provides domestic violence counseling, outreach, advocacy, and case management services in the outlying rural areas of Dona Ana County. The satellite office is located in Anthony, but the staff is available to travel to Hatch, Sunland Park, Chaparral, and the outlying rural areas in the county in order to meet the needs of those communities.

Parenting

Specialized parenting education is offered to parents who are or have been involved in domestic violence relationships. The intent of this program is to prevent child abuse and neglect in families experiencing domestic violence by giving these parents the skills and knowledge necessary to decrease the use of violence in their relationships with their children, improve communication skills and break the generational cycle of abuse.

Education and Prevention

La Casa provides community education and prevention activities to raise public awareness about domestic violence issues and about domestic violence services. Services are offered in the schools, churches, professional, and community groups.

Option, Inc.

Since its founding in 1978, Option, Inc. has worked tirelessly towards its mission by providing a comprehensive menu of services for victims of domestic violence in Lea County, New Mexico.

The essential services, which include emergency shelter, crisis intervention, and advocacy, have provided the foundation from which Option has built its services. Additional services include counseling, (individual and group), transitional housing, food, clothing, transportation, assistance with acquiring protective orders, mediation and safehouse interviewing for child abuse victims, in addition to transitional housing services for. In the 31 years of its existence,

Option, Inc. looks for innovative ways to influence the families experiencing domestic violence by providing services to children, services to offenders as well as expanding the core services to victims to look at creating change.

All individuals seeking assistance from Option, Inc. are treated with non-judgment and respect without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age and sexuality as they try to change the abusive patterns that have defined their lives.

Creating opportunities for change is not always an easy task, but with the assistance and support of the local community, Option, Inc. continues to grow and assess its programs for impact and progress. In maintaining this fluidity in the expanded programs offered, Option will continue to be a leader in southeast New Mexico in the services provided for victims and families in domestic violence.

Roberta’s Place

Provides shelter for up to 90 days, advocacy, and counseling for women and children in and out of the shelter. Additionaly, they offer client support, local transportation, assistance with filling out restraining orders, a person to accompany clients to hearings, personal necessities if needed such as: clothing, toothbrushes, shampoo, food and furniture. A legal program is pending for divorce, paternity, and custody.Roberta’s Place has a 24 hour-7 day crisis line and intervention by professional advocates. Roberta’s Place also hace a thrift store located at this address.

The Hartley House

The Hartley House is dedicated to the prevention of abuse in relationships and advocates freedom from violence for all individuals.

The Hartley House serves abused family members and their children. It is a place for the physically and emotionally battered to retreat, to think over their situation and to consider their alternatives.

Our Goals:

· Provide temporary refuge for battered spouses/partners (or other abused family members) and their children.

· Prevent the abuse of adults and children resulting from domestic disturbances.

· Provide emotional support and counseling for abused persons and their families.

The Healing House

Services provided include: Crisis intervention; legal advocacy; job, housing and immigration assistance; offender’s program; information and referrals; 24 hour crisis hotline; counseling; community outreach; support groups in English and Spanish. Children must be accompanied by a parent.

The Roswell Refuge

The mission of the Roswell Refuge is to provide a safe environment and advocacy for victims of domestic violence and to educate the community about the effects of domestic violence on adults, children, and the community-at-large.

Torrance County Project

We can advise domestic violence victims of their legal rights and responsibilities, assist them with completing an Order For Protection for the court and attend the hearing with them.

Victim Counseling

The Empowerment Group for women meets weekly. The group is free of charge if your insurance does not cover it. If you do not have insurance please ask about our State Coverage Insurance application assistance.

Offender Services

Group counseling for batterers and offenders meet weekly with seperate men’s and women’s groups.

Request a Speaker
To schedule a speaker for your organization, please contact Laine Snow, Program Manager at (505) 718-7300.

Training
We offer a broad spectrum of consultation and training services to professionals. Customized presentations and workshops on domestic violence, sexual assault, childhood abuse, and other related topics of clinical concern are provided upon request.

Student Training
At the Tri-County Family Justice Center, we offer practicum experiences for individuals pursuing a master’s degree in psychology or social work. Each practicum is tailored to the students’ needs based on their previous training and experience. For more information, please contact the center to set up an appointment.

Valencia Shelter Services

The Valencia Shelter provides relief and support to victims of domestic violence. The program offers counseling, life skills education, crisis intervention, emergency shelter, offenders programs, transitional life skills and housing. Other services include: emergency shelter and support for victims of domestic violence, referrals to area agencies, and education.